Mimaki Engineering in Japan has announced that it will launch the TS500P-3200 inkjet printer in February 2016. This 3.2-m wide roll-to-roll sublimation inkjet printer is a dedicated transfer paper printer for the textile printing industry.

La Meccanica S.p.A. manufactures inspection and packing machines for various types of fabrics. The company offers compact inspection machines, production inspection machines, packing machines for rolls and packs, machines for fabric predisposition, special machines, and ink-jet printers. Its primary applications are in the field of elastic fabric, Lycra, and knitted fabrics, as well as for woven fabrics and technical fabrics (PVC, polyuretans, and synthetic grass).

Heimtextile which opens its doors on the 12-15th January 2016 in Frankfurt is becoming a major show for all things textile. Making its debut appearance at the show is Velvet Jet, a Bordeaux Digital PrintInk division for textile printing inks, developed the industry’s first pigment ink that prints on all fabrics with one simple process.

Kornit Digital has announced details of its participation in Heimtextil 2016. Kornit will present actual furniture samples that were produced with fabrics from its roll-to-roll system Allegro, based on designs from Turnowsky, a fashion-led and trend-conscious international design house.

GJS have announced the exclusive availability of SubliCotton, a solution that enables users to expand their product offering to print onto white or light cotton garments using your existing sublimation printer and standard sublimation inks.

The software offers companies creating long runs of functional or patterned fabrics using digital print technology and a powerful, streamlined production suite that guarantees consistency of output despite rapid turnaround.

JK Group SPA, owner of the Kiian Digital, J-Teck 3, and Sawgrass Industrial brands has announced today that it will be acquired by Dover Engineering Systems(“DES”) in the US, a business segment of Dover Corporation. It will operate as a stand-alone operating company within DES Printing & Identification platform.

Designed for low-cost production of high-value digital textile applications, the TS300P-1800 1,8m wide roll-to-roll sublimation inkjet printer is a dedicated transfer paper printer, offering new levels of quality and productivity.

Konica Minolta, Inc.will launch at the end of 2015 the Nassenger SP-1, a high-productivity, high-resolution inkjet textile printer that employs a single pass system, in response to the increasing use of digital printing in the textile printing industry.

At the first dedicated textile exhibition since the mid-2015 acquisition to form EFI Reggiani, the company will showcase new technological sustainable technology solutions and processes for the new era of green textile factory production at ITMA 2015.

At ITMA 2015 in Milan, Kornit Digital together with Zünd and other industry partners, will be demonstrating how textile and garment manufacturers can make their production processes more efficient, profitable, and transparent with ‘Simulate, Print & Cut’, a fully integrated, highly adaptable production workflow.